The liver is a late bloomer!

"The choice of 3 becomes a choice of 2."

"But making 36 choices was still too risky."

Xu Chen sat cross-legged in the Holy White Space, his gaze deep and unfathomable, recalling his experiences over the past tens of thousands of years.

"With my current abilities, I can only make a decision the instant that force pushes me. If my level were higher, I might be able to break through this force."

"Use this as a boundary to choose the right intersection."

As Xu Chen finished speaking, his consciousness returned to his physical body.

"Senior, would you be interested in telling me why you were able to advance to the Great Venerable Realm on the Path of the Great Dao? To be precise, the Half-Step Great Venerable Realm," Xu Chen asked sincerely.

"Kid, I believe you must have some great opportunity, some great secret, that you can't even tell your closest friends and family."

“You have it, and so do I. How I reached this state is also related to the greatest opportunity I could never speak of,” Qianming said leisurely.

"Senior, please help me. Whether I can advance to this level using the 13 Great Paths depends entirely on you."

Upon hearing Xu Chen's words, Qianming remained silent for a moment.

"Judging from your words, do you have a way to simulate the scene of advancing to the Great Venerable level through more than ten Great Dao paths?" Qianming suddenly asked.

“I have a way~ If you want to know what will happen next, I will tell you,” Xu Chen said.

"I can say that I was also curious and asked several powerful figures on the Great Dao, but they all advanced to the Great Venerable level through nine or fewer Great Dao paths," Qianming asked curiously.

"After walking 72 million steps along the nine main paths of the predecessors, you will reach a crossroads where you must choose your path."

"When one is reduced to the realm of a mortal, at every crossroads, there is only one correct path. If one mistakenly enters another path, one's body will turn into blood mist," Xu Chen said truthfully.

"With the nine main roads as the boundary, each additional road will provide nine more choices at the intersection."

“I’ve tried it before, and I can only get to the 8th intersection. As for the last intersection, no matter what I choose, it will be the wrong one.”

Just as Xu Chen finished speaking, a terrifying lightning tribulation suddenly condensed in the Star Sea Domain and struck Xu Chen.

'Boom~~'

The innate spiritual treasure-level Daoist temple was instantly reduced to dust by this terrifying lightning tribulation, and Xu Chen's own body and soul seemed to be swallowed by a black hole and disappeared.

The terrifying shockwave spread in all directions, pushing the distant Great Stream Sect Master World about a hundred miles away.

In an instant, powerful experts at the Great Luo Realm from the Great Stream Sect Master World appeared in the Star Sea Domain.

Meanwhile, the starry sea space near Xu Chen's dojo in the distance had been reduced to nothingness and was slowly reviving.

Within the Great Stream Sect Master's world, the two Xu brothers, who were refining an innate supreme treasure, stopped and then quickly activated the Dream Dao power within their bodies.

In the direction where the dojo had been destroyed, a seed of life formed from the power of the Dream Dao appeared and began to absorb the power of the surrounding Great Dao of Life.

As the power of the Great Dao of Life reaches its limit, the Seed of Life sprouts and eventually transforms into a Tree of the Great Dao of Life.

An embryo forms at the top of the Tree of Life, and from the moment it appears, it grows rapidly.

After reaching his limit, Xu Chen emerged from the embryo.

At this moment, the many Great Luo Realm disciples of the Great Stream Sect who were observing around the Star Sea Domain all had expressions of shock on their faces.

If I had faced that force directly, my physical body, soul, and even my true spirit might have been cleaved into nothingness.

"It seems we can't just blurt things out about things that are too confidential," Xu Chen said with lingering fear.

"Disciple of the Great Stream Sect".

"In all your future deeds, actions, and words, you must have reverence for the Great Dao."

"Otherwise, this is the consequence."

As Xu Chen spoke, he pointed to the star sea region where the space was shattered and healing, his voice booming like a bell, resounding throughout the surrounding star sea.

"I will obey the orders of the Second Elder!"

One hundred thousand Great Luo Realm disciples and several million Golden Immortal Realm disciples saluted each other in the Star Sea Domain.

"Everyone, you can leave now."

Xu Chen waved his hand, formed a hand seal, and used the power of spatial vibration to instantly restore the space that had just been cleaved and was healing.

Then he took out a cave dwelling of innate spiritual treasure level and placed it in the Star Sea Domain.

"Elder Qianming, do you know how confidential what I'm telling you is? You're probably the second person in the entire Star Sea Domain to know what the scenes are like on the Nine Great Paths," Xu Chen said to himself.

"I understand. You truly deserved to suffer this lightning punishment from the will of the Star Sea Domain."

"If it were me, I would never dare to say it, even if you killed me."

"Since you want to know how I advanced to the half-step Great Venerable Realm on the path of the Great Dao, then I will tell you."

"Please speak, senior. I am all ears," Xu Chen said respectfully.

"Of the three thousand Great Daos, which one is the most profound, and which one is the most mysterious?" Qianming asked first.

"The Dao of Time is the most mysterious and profound. Even a Saint Venerable can only grasp its superficial aspects," Xu Chen answered truthfully.

"I once entered a place of temporal chaos, where my own river of time was disordered, sometimes transforming into a child, sometimes into a youth, sometimes into a Saintly Venerable, and sometimes into a seed of life."

"I found a time crystal in that place where time was disordered and stole a time-related secret technique."

"Otherwise, I wouldn't have dared to advance to the Great Venerable level using the nine Great Paths back then."

"On the path of the Great Dao, I use my own long river of time as a marker, consuming time crystals to steal the power of my own future Great Venerable." Qianming had just finished speaking.

The starry sea above Xu Chen changed again, and a terrifying divine wind swept across the starry sea where Xu Chen was located.

This starry sea was gradually weathered away, eventually turning into dust and dissipating. Even the space itself was worn down to its deepest level by this divine and malevolent wind.

Although the wind of divine destruction is not as vast as the tribulation of thunder, its silent annihilation is even more terrifying than the tribulation of thunder.

Within the Great Stream Sect Master's world, the two Xu brothers, who were just about to continue refining the embryo of the innate supreme treasure, were stunned again, and finally jointly activated a life force.

In the same Star Sea Domain, Xu Chen emerged from the Twenty-Four Golden Lotus formed by the Great Dao of Life.

"Why should I be punished for revealing the secrets of heaven!" Xu Chen said indignantly.

At this moment, Qianming, who was in the cause and effect of Xu Chen, was happy.

"I never expected that revealing such a secret place would bring about such calamity. Interesting, truly interesting."

"Xu Chen, would you like to hear something even more secretive?" Tianming asked with a smile.

"Please don't, senior."

Xu Chen, who had just been resurrected, felt that his foundation of the Great Dao was somewhat unstable. If he were to suffer another great calamity, his foundation of the Great Dao might crack.

"Then I'd like to trouble you to point me to a location, senior." Even though he was thinking to himself, Xu Chen didn't dare to ask aloud.

"Want to know?" Qianming's voice trailed off, tinged with a hint of teasing.

"Want to know? What are your conditions, senior? Please tell me directly."

"You said this, so how about you do me a favor?" Qianming knew when to stop.

"Please speak, senior." "I know of a place where a Saint has perished. Go inside and help me find something."

“After finding that thing, force out a trace of my causal power. I know you have a way to inject it into the four places,” Qianming said.

"Senior, I've prepared enough backup plans for you over the years, why do you still want to do this?" Xu Chen knew immediately what the signature was for.
"You can never have too much of this. Just go and get it done."

Xu Chen had a new coordinate in his mind, which was extremely far from this place. In the past, it would have taken at least ten spatial turbulence zones to get there.

"Then I'll go take a look~ It'll be a good opportunity to get out and clear my head."

Xu Chen nodded and stepped into the Great Stream Sect Master's world.

Subsequently, a colossal innate treasure warship spanning tens of millions of miles flew out from the Great Stream Sect Master's world and slowly entered the spatial turbulence region.

"Fortunately, over the past few million years, Da Xu and Er Xu have traveled to many places, otherwise I would still need to painstakingly search for spatial turbulence zones."

Using the map left behind in the innate treasure, Xu Chen quickly arrived at the closest location and then began searching for the area of ​​spatial turbulence.

The large innate spiritual treasure that Da Xu had crafted for Xu Chen, capable of guiding spatial turbulence, was loaded onto the innate supreme treasure warship because Xu Chen didn't need it at the time.

The area that would normally take ten thousand years, or even longer, was reached in just a thousand years thanks to this innate spiritual treasure.

"What is your relationship with this Saint Venerable? How do you know that there is something you need in his Land of Annihilation?" Xu Chen asked suddenly before entering the Saint Venerable's Land of Annihilation.

"This was one of the backup plans I had prepared. I originally intended to cultivate it to the level of an invincible Saint Venerable so that it could be my substitute puppet."

"But when he reached the Saint Venerable Realm, he accidentally entered a dangerous place set up by a powerful figure on the Great Dao, which damaged his origin. He could only stop at the Saint Venerable Realm and finally chose to disappear in the long river of time."

"What I asked you to find is his body. When the time comes, you will use the technique of dividing the body into four parts and randomly place one part in various places all over the world."

"I'll collect it after I recover."

"Is there any danger in this desolate place?"

“For an ordinary Great Luo Realm cultivator, going in would be suicide, but it’s different for you. Although it’s a bit difficult for you, you can still complete it with some effort,” Qianming said.

"Then I'll take another look."

A colossal, innate treasure warship sailed into this desolate land.

"Master, may I send someone out to investigate?" A high-ranking alien being bound to the innate treasure warship respectfully replied to Xu Chen.

"You can stay in the warship." Xu Chen waved his hand. These Grand Venerables would only be throwing their lives away if they went out. They might as well stay in the Innate Treasure Warship and do odd jobs.

"All Great Dao Law Cannons, prepare."

At Xu Chen's command, a terrifying power of the Great Dao spread out from the innate treasure warship.

At this moment, a colossal corpse, ninety thousand miles tall, lay peacefully in the very center of the Land of Annihilation.

It has three heads, nine arms, and four legs, and wears world-destroying armor. Each of its nine arms holds a primordial spiritual treasure of the killing type.

Although his entire body was completely still, his eyes remained open.

His eyes were wide open in anger, but deep down he was filled with resentment, despair, and fear.

The innate treasure warship stopped not far from the corpse.

Xu Chen squinted at the patterns on the corpse, and finally couldn't help but sigh. In the unorthodox path, he had reached the pinnacle in the Star Sea Domain.

He could tell at a glance what the purpose of the patterns on the corpse was.

"Senior, why didn't you do it more discreetly back then? This person has already discovered it," Xu Chen thought to himself.

"So what if I discovered it? In the end, it still became my wedding dress."

“If it weren’t for me back then, given his small clan’s territory, he would have only been able to barely advance to the Great Venerable Realm.”

"I gave him the opportunity to bring his race to the ranks of the great races, and he's enjoyed it for so many years. Compared to what he's given, he's made a huge profit," Qianming said nonchalantly.

"In terms of value exchange, that is indeed the case."

Xu Chen gently stretched out his hand, and a spatial magic artifact flew out from the corpse.

He examined the spatial artifacts with his divine sense and said that they were mostly junk, with only a few items that could barely reach the level of innate spiritual treasures.

"He's so poor. The senior didn't even bestow upon him a single innate treasure back then."

"You think innate treasures are like cabbages, given away casually?" Qianming's voice sounded like he was rolling his eyes.

At this moment, the patterns on the corpse began to glow with golden light, and then the golden light spread to all the patterns on the body.

The 90,000-mile-long corpse seemed to come alive; its eyes, wide open in death, blinked suddenly in resentment.

"You've finally come!" The voice seemed to come from the depths of the abyss.

The massive corpse slowly sat up, its gaze fixed on the direction where Xu Chen was.

"Is this also a body you planned?" the corpse's voice mocked.

“Interesting. It seems you haven’t completely vanished.” Xu Chen spoke on behalf of Qianming.

"I thank you for helping me advance to the Great Venerable Realm, but my body will always be mine, and you cannot touch it."

A force of death sealed off the surrounding star sea.

The innate spiritual treasures wielded by the nine arms were all pointed at Xu Chen.

"Stop fighting, accept your fate," Xu Chen advised.

At this moment, more than 1000 Grand Venerable level puppets blocked Xu Chen's path, forming a defensive battle formation.

"Fate, why should I accept fate? This is not my fate!" the corpse cried out angrily.

"My fate shouldn't be like this!"

"You dare to covet my body's existence? Remember this: before I vanish, everything I possessed was mine. Your help back then was merely icing on the cake. I could have reached this point without you!"

"I've waited for you here for so many years just to tell you this!"

"My destiny, my body, I! Am! In! Hands! To! Decide! My! Own! State!"

The roar of the corpse reverberated through the starry sea, creating ripples in space.

"Don't even think about making me your wedding dress!"

Xu Chen stood on the innate treasure warship, listening quietly.

"Don't just listen, you've almost finished setting things up, it's time to get started," Qianming urged Xu Chen in his mind.

"I've been holding my breath all these years just to tell you this. Listen to me."

"I feel like if I didn't have some tricks up my sleeve, I might be in an even worse situation than this guy in front of me," Xu Chen said leisurely.

"Look at you, this matter isn't over yet." Qianming's voice suddenly sounded a little guilty.

"The feeling of shared suffering has resurfaced in my heart. I've waited for you for so many years, so let me say a few words." Xu Chen's lips curled up slightly.

"Come on, I'll fight you!"

A burst of crimson flame rose from the surface of the corpse. (End of Chapter)